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Sucrose solution is stored in the crop and intermittently relocated to the midgut.
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posted on 2021-09-02, 17:37 authored by Floriane Almire, Selim Terhzaz, Sandra Terry, Melanie McFarlane, Rommel J. Gestuveo, Agnieszka M. Szemiel, Margus Varjak, Alma McDonald, Alain Kohl, Emilie PondevillePictures of digestive tracts dissected from females fed with a blue-stained 10% sucrose solution. (A) Picture of a representative gut minutes after sugar feeding showing sugar stored in the crop and relocated to midgut. (B) Picture of a representative gut one day after sugar feeding, showing sugar in the crop (although less than just after feeding) and little to no sugar solution in the midgut.
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